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In reply to the discussion: Krugman: 85% of consumer spending in America is on American-produced goods and services [View all]cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)8. The two scales do make it confusing
I think that what is being represented is that about 2% of our spending goes to isolated cost of Chinese goods and about 13% of our spending to the isolated cost of imported goods. (Not counting the value-added costs of shipping the imports from a port to a Walmart, etc.)
If your question is what part of the remaining (domestic) 87% is goods, versus services, that's a good question.
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Krugman: 85% of consumer spending in America is on American-produced goods and services [View all]
pampango
Jan 2012
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I assume the graph was done that way to better show the rise in the line for Chinese goods.
DCBob
Jan 2012
#11
Services includes a lot of things that are fixed expenses, housing, insurance, vehicle maintenance..
Fumesucker
Jan 2012
#7
When food and energy are excluded, 88% of expenditure is 'Made in USA'
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2012
#12